Re: IPv6 traffic percentages?

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > > We could assert that the TTL is an indication of distance traveled.
> >
> > you might hypothesize it.  but the wide variance in per-hop rtt would
> > seem to belie that.
> >
> > > Maybe one should record the TTL and Address Family of all packets
> > > received from the internet ('inbound') at the next NANOG or IETF?
> >
> > we have large bodies of traceroute and ping results in various stores,
> > mlab, atlas, mawi, ...  it is the analysis to test your original
> > hypothesis which baffles me.
>
> I'm not sure if milions traceroutes to all kinds of places are a good
> dataset to begin with.

all depends on what the actual means by which you intend to test your
hypothesis, which you have yet to reveal.

all i have heard so far is ttl, which we know is no measure of distance.

randy